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WWI US Army Company B - 302nd Ammunition Train

Re: WWI US Army Company B - 302nd Ammunition Train

Posted: 20 Apr 2014 2:26PM GMT
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My grandfather, Theodore Mansfield Crawford, also served in an ammunition train in WWI as a truck driver. (Unfortunately, we just took a photograph of his unit to be framed, so I can't specify which unit he was in -- but I know for certain it was Company B of a 3-- series ammunition train). Grandpa told me that they drove Liberty trucks. Every morning, he said, they would wake up and use cranks to start the engines. In France, this was difficult, as the vehicles were cold in the morning. I thought you might enjoy seeing a picture of one that I took at the Army Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis, Virginia. The museum is very nice -- located about halfway between Richmond and Hampton Roads a couple of miles off the interstate.
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Re: WWI US Army Company B - 302nd Ammunition Train

Posted: 23 Apr 2014 10:53PM GMT
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My father was in Company F, 303rd Ammunition Train. I have an elongated framed photo of the entire Company, composed of 104 men, hanging in my office. The photo was taken in Roxburg, NJ (between Belvidere and Phillipsburg). My father died when I was one year old from leukemia caused by a mustard gas attack in France. He was a rural mail carrier in civilian life.

Re: WWI US Army Company B - 302nd Ammunition Train

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 4:49AM GMT
Classification: Query
You might be interested, there are some letters on Ebay right now from Company B, 302nd Amm. Train. Seller is "grams_basement". I think the surname is Cosgrove.

Sincerely, fellow WW1 researcher.
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